Jake Scott piece

Hyde did a great job, really wonderful.

But Jake Scott is the real star here. A guy with true principles in life, and he sticks by them no matter what. Maybe too far, some might say, but .... no. Jake Scott is what integrity is all about.

There's something to be said in this country about a man who sticks by his word and doesn't compromise his integrity. America was built on that, and nobody likes a liar anyway, right?

Jake Scott doesn't like anyone who would lie to him, or expoit him, and isn't that a good lesson for anyone?

He never cared about being a star. He just wanted the proper respect, as anyone of us would.

Thankfully for Jake Scott, he gets it from the real people in life that he hangs out with today. People away from the world that the rest of us think people care about.

Really, would you not rather be on a beach in Hawaii without any cares in the real world instead of working for a company that will sell your ass out in a minute if the numbers don't come in right a week or two from now?

Props to Jake Scott. That guy knew what to do, and he did it.

 

Jake must have been really tortured when asked to sign this book 400 times. I wonder if he donated his fee to charity>

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Just reread Hyde's piece again. Excellent work.

After reading again though, I am having a hard time envisioning Scott sitting down with some PR lackey to sign 400 copies of a book that will sell for $40,000 each.

It kind of blows the Scott image for me.

 

What does one have to do with the other? Nolan Ryan or Arnold Palmer or Roger Staubach or Pat Tillman or Muhammad Ali never accepted money for his autograph?

Why must class/principles and doing an autograph signing be exclusive of one another?

When I read the Jake Scott piece, he reminded me a lot of Ted Williams in a way. His own man. Fuck everybody else and what they think. Ted Williams charged for a few autographs in his day.

Ali has a book that goes for $12,500. Care to dismiss his principles, too?

http://www.amazon.com/GOAT-Tribute-Muhammad-Ali-Champions/dp/3822830682
"All 10,000 copies are individually signed by Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons."

 

Well, in Hyde's piece there was the Scott quote about not going to Detroit last February "for only $8,000"....

So, I think that that was present in the piece.

It does take away from the driven-snow image of the man, but I got the distinct idea from that article that the man could be bought.

 

sure he can...

... just not for eight grand.

 

Exactly - everyone else signed the book in Detroit. Some lackey must have had to fly to Hawaii to have Scott sign. I bet it was for more than $8000.

Soneone else must have ventured on to his porch ......ah ah mr scott can I ....I... get you to sign 400 of these b ...bb...books?

 

ahhh, you miss the point. Jake Scott ventured out only once in a while to meet the public and deal with that, and so he took some money for it. but he's done it what, once-twice-three-maybe? ted williams is not a good comparison. ted, and dimaggio, sold anything they could at the end, although ted's son was a big part of that.

jake scott, like him or not, is his own man, and always has been.

we all secretly wish we had the integrity to tell the world to fuck off, don't we? thing is, jake had the bucks to do that, and you and i would also.

i'd love to see jake scott meet george w. bush. i bet bush would wilt after a couple of minutes and then ask if he could wipe jake's ass.

jake scott and pat tillman probably are a lot alike. and for all the right reasons, if you wanna get down to honesty and integrity and moral values, which is a pretty good place to get down to, if you ask me.

 

That brings us around to my original observation - the iconiclast free safety - from Jake Scott to Pat Tillman.

 

integrity? principles? what hogwash.

jack scott gave nothing back. he took a lot, from his school, and sport, and city - and gave nothing back.

he's a hermit - big deal. we're supposed to aspire to that? envy him? he sits at a bar every night - like a zillion other lushes - and does what? sits next to a few other hermits.

the best that can be said of him is that he didn't hurt anybody or break the law. low crossbar.

 

jake. not jack.

 

Jack Scott kidnapped Patty Hurst and almost ruined the career of Bill Walton